Cat allergies!?

Question:

> >I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than > >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed. > Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but > like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 > boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. > The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to > venture further.

Put "Cat Enclosure" into google search and go to town Karen

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> > >I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than > >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed. > Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but > like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 > boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. > The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to > venture further.

Hi Rob,     He’s a web site to check out that should be the answer to you problems http://www.catfencein.com/ Lyle

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>I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed.

Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to venture further. >I don’t let dogs > roam on other people’s property and I don’t believe cats should either. Mine > get to go outside with me at times – on the deck and patio and lawn, but only > supervised in a relatively (for cats) enclosed yard.

If you own a dog, you keep him contained- that’s common knowledge. That isn’t necessarily true with a cat. Some people choose to let them out, others don’t. Laws vary. You may feel that my letting them out is careless or cruel just as I might think it is cruel and uncaring for you not to let your’s out to experience the world. (which I don’t) I respect your stance and if you chose not to respect mine that’s fine. > Your cat comes home injured or sick and you still believe it’s a good thing for > him to be out on his own?  Oh well……

I never said it was neccessarily a GOOD thing, I just *think* it’s the right thing. If I lived off right a busy thoroughfare, or next to a nuclear plant, I might think otherwise but I don’t. If my cat has not improved by the time I get off work, we’ll be taking a trip to the vet. He could have gotten into something outside, or it may just be allergies. I guess I’ll find out. > Janet Boss > Best Friends Dog Obedience > "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" > Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine > www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

– Go Nets!

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>I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than >keeping them locked indoors their whole life.

Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed.  I don’t let dogs roam on other people’s property and I don’t believe cats should either.  Mine get to go outside with me at times – on the deck and patio and lawn, but only supervised in a relatively (for cats) enclosed yard.   Your cat comes home injured or sick and you still believe it’s a good thing for him to be out on his own?  Oh well…… Janet Boss Best Friends Dog Obedience "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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>Can cats have allergies? I >would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence.

Doomed?  Unless supervised, outside isn’t a safe place.  On average, he’ll have a much longer life if he’s an indoor kitty. Janet Boss Best Friends Dog Obedience "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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>Can cats have allergies? I >would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence. > Doomed?  Unless supervised, outside isn’t a safe place.

Maybe a bad choice of words.. How about *deprived* of an outside existence? >On average, he’ll have  a much longer life if he’s an indoor kitty.

And I would venture to say that on average he would have a much fuller, happier life as an indoor/outdoor kitty. Believe me, I have struggled with this. My decision came down to wanting to have cats, not captives. These cats are all young, healthy and perfectly capable of handling themselves outside.. and now that they’ve gotten the taste of outside, they want out constantly. They shouldn’t be deprived of doing what they want to do just because my wife an I are over-protective worry-warts. They’ve all been desexed, current on their vaccinations and have collars with their/our info on them. I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Janet Boss > Best Friends Dog Obedience > "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" > Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine > www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

– Go Nets!

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We recently bought a house so we started letting our four furry varmints go outside and play for the first time. A few days ago our youngest one came in with a very swollen eye. We assumed he just poked it or scratched it or something so we cleaned it with wet rag a few times that night and it seemed to clear up a bit. We didn’t let him go back outside for a couple of days and his eye seemed to cleared up. We let him back out yesterday and when he came back last night, his eye was very irritated again. We cleaned it like before. We wake up this morning and both of eye’s look equally swollen, draining, and light pink. The discharge has dried and turned to black. I’ve been monitoring him and he doesn’t seem to have any other symptoms. He’s not sneezing or coughing, or even resting. He’s running around the house playing as I type this. We have two pure white cats that have always had eye discharge problems so this is nothing new to us really. We call the vet and they give us some antibiotics to put on them and they clear up. But this one seems different. It is definitely triggered by something outside. Can cats have allergies? I would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence. Anyone have any experience with this type of thing? — Go Nets!

Response:

> >I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than > >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed. > Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but > like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 > boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. > The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to > venture further.

Put "Cat Enclosure" into google search and go to town Karen

Response:

> > >I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than > >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed. > Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but > like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 > boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. > The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to > venture further.

Hi Rob,     He’s a web site to check out that should be the answer to you problems http://www.catfencein.com/ Lyle

Response:

>I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed.

Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to venture further. >I don’t let dogs > roam on other people’s property and I don’t believe cats should either. Mine > get to go outside with me at times – on the deck and patio and lawn, but only > supervised in a relatively (for cats) enclosed yard.

If you own a dog, you keep him contained- that’s common knowledge. That isn’t necessarily true with a cat. Some people choose to let them out, others don’t. Laws vary. You may feel that my letting them out is careless or cruel just as I might think it is cruel and uncaring for you not to let your’s out to experience the world. (which I don’t) I respect your stance and if you chose not to respect mine that’s fine. > Your cat comes home injured or sick and you still believe it’s a good thing for > him to be out on his own?  Oh well……

I never said it was neccessarily a GOOD thing, I just *think* it’s the right thing. If I lived off right a busy thoroughfare, or next to a nuclear plant, I might think otherwise but I don’t. If my cat has not improved by the time I get off work, we’ll be taking a trip to the vet. He could have gotten into something outside, or it may just be allergies. I guess I’ll find out. > Janet Boss > Best Friends Dog Obedience > "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" > Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine > www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

– Go Nets!

Response:

>I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than >keeping them locked indoors their whole life.

Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed.  I don’t let dogs roam on other people’s property and I don’t believe cats should either.  Mine get to go outside with me at times – on the deck and patio and lawn, but only supervised in a relatively (for cats) enclosed yard.   Your cat comes home injured or sick and you still believe it’s a good thing for him to be out on his own?  Oh well…… Janet Boss Best Friends Dog Obedience "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Response:

>Can cats have allergies? I >would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence.

Doomed?  Unless supervised, outside isn’t a safe place.  On average, he’ll have a much longer life if he’s an indoor kitty. Janet Boss Best Friends Dog Obedience "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Response:

>Can cats have allergies? I >would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence. > Doomed?  Unless supervised, outside isn’t a safe place.

Maybe a bad choice of words.. How about *deprived* of an outside existence? >On average, he’ll have  a much longer life if he’s an indoor kitty.

And I would venture to say that on average he would have a much fuller, happier life as an indoor/outdoor kitty. Believe me, I have struggled with this. My decision came down to wanting to have cats, not captives. These cats are all young, healthy and perfectly capable of handling themselves outside.. and now that they’ve gotten the taste of outside, they want out constantly. They shouldn’t be deprived of doing what they want to do just because my wife an I are over-protective worry-warts. They’ve all been desexed, current on their vaccinations and have collars with their/our info on them. I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Janet Boss > Best Friends Dog Obedience > "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" > Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine > www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

– Go Nets!

Response:

We recently bought a house so we started letting our four furry varmints go outside and play for the first time. A few days ago our youngest one came in with a very swollen eye. We assumed he just poked it or scratched it or something so we cleaned it with wet rag a few times that night and it seemed to clear up a bit. We didn’t let him go back outside for a couple of days and his eye seemed to cleared up. We let him back out yesterday and when he came back last night, his eye was very irritated again. We cleaned it like before. We wake up this morning and both of eye’s look equally swollen, draining, and light pink. The discharge has dried and turned to black. I’ve been monitoring him and he doesn’t seem to have any other symptoms. He’s not sneezing or coughing, or even resting. He’s running around the house playing as I type this. We have two pure white cats that have always had eye discharge problems so this is nothing new to us really. We call the vet and they give us some antibiotics to put on them and they clear up. But this one seems different. It is definitely triggered by something outside. Can cats have allergies? I would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence. Anyone have any experience with this type of thing? — Go Nets!

Response:

> >I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than > >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed. > Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but > like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 > boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. > The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to > venture further.

Put "Cat Enclosure" into google search and go to town Karen

Response:

> > >I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than > >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed. > Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but > like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 > boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. > The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to > venture further.

Hi Rob,     He’s a web site to check out that should be the answer to you problems http://www.catfencein.com/ Lyle

Response:

>I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than >keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed.

Any suggestions on how to make this possible? This was my initial plan but like a lot of people my house is equipped with wooden fences. It took the 2 boys under 2 weeks for them to learn that they could climb up and over them. The girls are perfectly content in the backyard and show no desire to venture further. >I don’t let dogs > roam on other people’s property and I don’t believe cats should either. Mine > get to go outside with me at times – on the deck and patio and lawn, but only > supervised in a relatively (for cats) enclosed yard.

If you own a dog, you keep him contained- that’s common knowledge. That isn’t necessarily true with a cat. Some people choose to let them out, others don’t. Laws vary. You may feel that my letting them out is careless or cruel just as I might think it is cruel and uncaring for you not to let your’s out to experience the world. (which I don’t) I respect your stance and if you chose not to respect mine that’s fine. > Your cat comes home injured or sick and you still believe it’s a good thing for > him to be out on his own?  Oh well……

I never said it was neccessarily a GOOD thing, I just *think* it’s the right thing. If I lived off right a busy thoroughfare, or next to a nuclear plant, I might think otherwise but I don’t. If my cat has not improved by the time I get off work, we’ll be taking a trip to the vet. He could have gotten into something outside, or it may just be allergies. I guess I’ll find out. > Janet Boss > Best Friends Dog Obedience > "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" > Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine > www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

– Go Nets!

Response:

>I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than >keeping them locked indoors their whole life.

Nah – you can supervise them or make your yard cat enclosed.  I don’t let dogs roam on other people’s property and I don’t believe cats should either.  Mine get to go outside with me at times – on the deck and patio and lawn, but only supervised in a relatively (for cats) enclosed yard.   Your cat comes home injured or sick and you still believe it’s a good thing for him to be out on his own?  Oh well…… Janet Boss Best Friends Dog Obedience "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Response:

>Can cats have allergies? I >would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence.

Doomed?  Unless supervised, outside isn’t a safe place.  On average, he’ll have a much longer life if he’s an indoor kitty. Janet Boss Best Friends Dog Obedience "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Response:

>Can cats have allergies? I >would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence. > Doomed?  Unless supervised, outside isn’t a safe place.

Maybe a bad choice of words.. How about *deprived* of an outside existence? >On average, he’ll have  a much longer life if he’s an indoor kitty.

And I would venture to say that on average he would have a much fuller, happier life as an indoor/outdoor kitty. Believe me, I have struggled with this. My decision came down to wanting to have cats, not captives. These cats are all young, healthy and perfectly capable of handling themselves outside.. and now that they’ve gotten the taste of outside, they want out constantly. They shouldn’t be deprived of doing what they want to do just because my wife an I are over-protective worry-warts. They’ve all been desexed, current on their vaccinations and have collars with their/our info on them. I think that’s about all I can do to protect them other than keeping them locked indoors their whole life. > Janet Boss > Best Friends Dog Obedience > "Nice Manners for the Family Pet" > Voted "Best of Baltimore 2001" – Baltimore Magazine > www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

– Go Nets!

Response:

We recently bought a house so we started letting our four furry varmints go outside and play for the first time. A few days ago our youngest one came in with a very swollen eye. We assumed he just poked it or scratched it or something so we cleaned it with wet rag a few times that night and it seemed to clear up a bit. We didn’t let him go back outside for a couple of days and his eye seemed to cleared up. We let him back out yesterday and when he came back last night, his eye was very irritated again. We cleaned it like before. We wake up this morning and both of eye’s look equally swollen, draining, and light pink. The discharge has dried and turned to black. I’ve been monitoring him and he doesn’t seem to have any other symptoms. He’s not sneezing or coughing, or even resting. He’s running around the house playing as I type this. We have two pure white cats that have always had eye discharge problems so this is nothing new to us really. We call the vet and they give us some antibiotics to put on them and they clear up. But this one seems different. It is definitely triggered by something outside. Can cats have allergies? I would hate to see our poor kitty doomed to an indoor existence. Anyone have any experience with this type of thing? — Go Nets!

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